The combination of formal education, job experiences, relationships, and assessment of personality and abilities to help employees prepare for the future of their careers.

A career that frequently changes based on changes in the person’s interests, abilities, and values and in the work environment.

Collecting information and providing feedback to employees about their behavior, communication style, or skills.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

Psychological inventory that identifies individuals’ preferences for source of energy, means of information gathering, way of decision making, and lifestyle, providing information for team building and leadership development.

Brand of assessment tool that identifies individuals’ behavioral patterns in terms of dominance, influence, steadiness, and conscientiousness.

A wide variety of specific selection programs that use multiple selection methods to rate applicants or job incumbents on their management potential.

Leaderless Group Discussion

An assessment center exercise in which a team of five to seven employees is assigned a problem and must work together to solve it within a certain time period.

The combination of relationships, problems, demands, tasks, and other features of an employee’s job.

Assignment of an employee to a position in a different area of the company, usually in a lateral move.

Assignment of an employee to a position with less responsibility and authority.

Assignment of an employee to a position with greater challenges, more responsibility, and more authority than in the previous job, usually accompanied by a pay increase.

Employee development through a full-time temporary position at another organization.

A leave of absence from an organization to renew or develop skills.

An experienced, productive senior employee who helps develop a less experienced employee (a protégé).

A peer or manager who works with an employee to motivate the employee, help him or her develop skills, and provide reinforcement and feedback.

The use of information by employees to determine their career interests, values, aptitudes, and behavioral tendencies.

Information employers give employees about their skills and knowledge and where these assets fit into the organization’s plans.

Circumstances resembling an invisible barrier that keep most women and minorities from attaining the top jobs in organizations.

The process of identifying and tracking high-potential employees who will be able to fill top management positions when they become vacant.

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Chapter 8

Definitions

Term	Definition
Employee Development	The combination of formal education, job experiences, relationships, and assessment of personality and abilities to help employees prepare for the future of their careers.
Protean Career	A career that frequently changes based on changes in the person’s interests, abilities, and values and in the work environment.
Assessment	Collecting information and providing feedback to employees about their behavior, communication style, or skills.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)	Psychological inventory that identifies individuals’ preferences for source of energy, means of information gathering, way of decision making, and lifestyle, providing information for team building and leadership development.
DiSC	Brand of assessment tool that identifies individuals’ behavioral patterns in terms of dominance, influence, steadiness, and conscientiousness.
Assessment Center	A wide variety of specific selection programs that use multiple selection methods to rate applicants or job incumbents on their management potential.
Leaderless Group Discussion	An assessment center exercise in which a team of five to seven employees is assigned a problem and must work together to solve it within a certain time period.
Job Experiences	The combination of relationships, problems, demands, tasks, and other features of an employee’s job.
Transfer	Assignment of an employee to a position in a different area of the company, usually in a lateral move.
Downward Move	Assignment of an employee to a position with less responsibility and authority.
Promotion	Assignment of an employee to a position with greater challenges, more responsibility, and more authority than in the previous job, usually accompanied by a pay increase.
Externship	Employee development through a full-time temporary position at another organization.
Sabbatical	A leave of absence from an organization to renew or develop skills.
Mentor	An experienced, productive senior employee who helps develop a less experienced employee (a protégé).
Coach	A peer or manager who works with an employee to motivate the employee, help him or her develop skills, and provide reinforcement and feedback.
Self-assessment	The use of information by employees to determine their career interests, values, aptitudes, and behavioral tendencies.
Feeedback	Information employers give employees about their skills and knowledge and where these assets fit into the organization’s plans.
Glass Ceiling	Circumstances resembling an invisible barrier that keep most women and minorities from attaining the top jobs in organizations.
Succession Planning	The process of identifying and tracking high-potential employees who will be able to fill top management positions when they become vacant.

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